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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/B.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Animal Astronauts' data-article-id='5348'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='6688'>The first human moon landing happened more than 50 years ago.</span> <span data-start-time='6688' data-end-time='16938'>But did you know that human astronauts were not the first Earthlings to travel in space and circle the moon?</span> <span data-start-time='16938' data-end-time='27625'>That honor goes to two Russian tortoises and several smaller creatures that went along for the ride.</span> <span data-start-time='27625' data-end-time='44000'>On September 14, 1968, the Soviet space program sent two tortoises, along with some flies and worms, into space for a trip around the moon.</span> <span data-start-time='44000' data-end-time='52813'>NASA calls it the first successful circumlunar mission carried out by any nation.</span> <span data-start-time='52813' data-end-time='61063'>After a week-long trip, the tortoises landed on Earth by parachute in the Indian Ocean.</span> <span data-start-time='61063' data-end-time='65688'>They traveled back to Moscow on October 7.</span> <span data-start-time='65688' data-end-time='71750'>Both tortoises survived the trip but not the experiment.</span> <span data-start-time='71750' data-end-time='85833'>NASA records state that the animals were dissected on October 11, 1968, to see how their bodies were affected by the space travel.</span> <span data-start-time='85833' data-end-time='96958'>Dissection showed that the main structural changes in the tortoises were caused by a lack of food and not the space travel.</span> <span data-start-time='96958' data-end-time='102479'>The tortoises had lost about 10 percent of their body weight.</span> <span data-start-time='102479' data-end-time='108354'> But they had stayed active and showed no loss of appetite.</span> <span data-start-time='108354' data-end-time='120896'>When compared with a control group of tortoises on Earth, the space traveling creatures had a small amount of spaceflight-related atrophy.</span> <span data-start-time='120896' data-end-time='128417'>When parts of the body atrophy, they decrease in size or waste away.</span> <span data-start-time='128417' data-end-time='136042'>The experiment demonstrated that the animals could travel around the moon and survive.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button 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class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/to_decrease_in_size_or_waste_away.wav'><span>to decrease in size or waste away</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/to_grow_very_tall.wav'><span>to grow very tall</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/to_increase_in_size_and_grow_strong.wav'><span>to increase in size and grow strong</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=16681 data-hint-location='27625' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/when_did_the_soviet_space_program_send_two_tortoises_for_trip_around_the_moon.wav'>When did the Soviet space program send two tortoises for trip around the moon?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='1968'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/1958.wav'><span>1958</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/1968.wav'><span>1968</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/1978.wav'><span>1978</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/1950.wav'><span>1950</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=16682 data-hint-location='16938' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/the_first_creature_to_circle_the_moon_was_a__blank_.wav'>The first creature to circle the moon was a <span class='blank'>tortoise</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='tortoise'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/monkey.wav'><span>monkey</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/tortoise.wav'><span>tortoise</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/human.wav'><span>human</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4823/cat.wav'><span>cat</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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